Category: idiot poker players who piss me off

They cut my days down to three or four days a week at work, so I figured that playing once or twice a week would be a good way to make up for the lost days.

The first time I played, I made just over $500 in four hours. Though it is a small sample size, it is a decent hourly. But I was a bit upset with my performance, because I could have won more. It has been 15 months since I quit playing professionally, and I have lost almost all of my killer instinct.

I love to play online poker, but I recently realized how much of a different person I become when things don’t go my way. Here is the chat log, verbatim (screen names changed):

Dealer: marids11 (button) showed 10cQs and won ($170.60) with a straight, Nine to King Seat 9: Youngman Brown showed KhKd and lost with three of a kind, Kings Youngman Brown: aslkjflaskjf Youngman Brown: WTF Youngman Brown: you call all the way down with a ****ing gutshot? Youngman Brown: what a ****ing donk marids11: hehehe ul Youngman Brown: unlucky my *** you idiot Youngman Brown: you just called your entire stack with a 4 outer Youngman Brown: I hope you get herpes.

The anger that flows from me is justified because this guy deserves to get verbally assaulted and that is a “bad beat” in any poker player’s book. What is surprising to me is my choice of ammunition.